Get Money Out

We demand the creation of a Presidential Commission tasked with ending the influence money has over our representatives in Washington.

An overwhelming majority of Americans agrees that that money plays too much of a role in the way decisions are made in Washington, and in our state capitols. A commission to find ways to limit that influence can have profound impact on our economy and our democracy.

I am so disgusted that every member of congress has multiple lobbyists who pay large sums to get their issues satisfied and we the people are just individual who have no clout with our calls, our emails and our petitions. We have no power because we can't make huge contributions to your campaigns. There is no democracy, there is just Corporatocracy and it sucks.

You are letting the environment, our water and air be polluted by dirty energy and your answer has been to attempt to gut the clean air and clean water bills because the polluters give you huge contributions. I am talking about drilling in our oceans, hydraulic fracking on fragile land, poisoning of water and mountaintop mining. All deeply shameful. We want to start this century with investment in clean energy (not natural gas) and new infrastructure in roads, high tech bullet trains, new airports, etc.

I have a lot more to add but this letter will become too long. Suffice it to say, please change from letting big lobbyists influence your decisions that affect our environment. Let the Bush taxcuts expire and DO NOT raise the age of retirement either. People become frail at 60 and the older one become the greater chance they will get cancer. If anything, lower the age to 60. Please help your constituents and protect us from further environmental damage.